Rays 13, Red Sox 0: Matt Garza pitched tremendously last night, taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning against the hottest offense in baseball until it was broken up by a Jacoby Ellsbury infield single. He stayed in the game, going 7 2/3, giving up that lone hit and striking out 10. Contrarily, and as you can see from the score, Josh Beckett was awful. Even in Garza’s senior year picture, he was already playing for keeps.

Brewers 4, D-Backs 1: Max Scherzer followed up a great start by Doug Davis with six shutout innings, but in the seventh, things got ugly quick in the form of 41-year old Tom Gordon. I’ll let Robert DeNiro in Cop Land take it from here.

Marlins 6, Cubs 2: Speaking of blowing it, there aren’t many relievers more familiar with that feeling than Aaron Heilman. In the top of the 10th, Heilman walked two, gave up six runs and failed to record an out. To be fair to Heilman, before last night he’d only given up one run in 11 appearances this season. Cubs had three errors, including a costly one in the eighth, and have lost seven of nine.

Cardinals 9, Nationals 4: Aaand continuing with the heroic bullpen theme, Julian Tavarez came on in the top of the ninth with the score tied and inexplicably went to work for the Cardinals: walk, double, walk, hit batsman, single, game over. The Nationals unflappable ball throwers issued 11 walks, hit two batters and committed a balk.

A’s 4, Rangers 2: Ryan Sweeney made a sick catch above the center field wall to rob Ian Kinsler of a three-run shot in the top of the eighth. Oakland starter Dallas Braden, who’s been great in his last four starts including this one, finally got some run support. More importantly, beardless Kurt Suzuki continues to be an outcast in the A’s clubhouse.